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Article: Administration retracts affirmative action curbs Hints of White House adrift
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 22, 1991
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WASHINGTON -- A White House lawyer's attempt to reverse two
decades of affirmative action on the eve of a presidential ceremony
to sign a new civil rights bill was the most serious of several
recent blunders and miscalculations by President Bush and his aides.
The episode, despite Bush's hasty and clumsy attempt to undo the
damage, left the president embarrassed and gave the appearance of a
White House careening out of control.
A presidential statement by an unnamed lawyer on the staff of C.
Boyden Gray, the White House counsel, was sent to agencies throughout
the government -- and key political operatives were unaware of the
impact it would have on existing policy or the storm of ...